Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over...
by willyt on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:07AM
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Concorde only used afterburner(en_us)/reheat(en_uk) for a small part of the acceleration phase of the flight not for cruise.
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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over...
by gnfargbl on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:49AM
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It's en_gb and not en_uk (although UK is exceptionally reserved [1], and we recently begun using UK on car nationality identifier stickers).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Exceptional...
Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over...
by mrcartmeneses on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @01:06PM
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GB is the more neutral term, UK is pushed by the Conservatives and nationalists/royalists
Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over...
by etothepii on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @01:34PM
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GB is not "more neutral".
Great Britain is the name of the post 1707 Union of England and Scotland. It's not neutral if you are a member of the Unionist community in Northern Ireland.
The United Kingdom is the name used by the country at the UN but is, of course, not neutral if one is a member of the Nationalist community in Northern Ireland.
No one uses .co.gb domains.
Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over...
by mlyle on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @03:56PM
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Here .... en-ie and en-gb are different things, because the Irish English dialect is a bit more distant from British English than the Scottish one. Whereas .uk is a country code representing a specific political entity.
Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over...
by jinder on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @01:24PM
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GB is not more neutral - it excludes Northern Ireland, which is a part of the UK.
Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over...
by jfk13 on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @01:27PM
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Aside from any such associations, they mean different things.
People often use the terms imprecisely, but (for example) if Scotland were to leave the United Kingdom, it'd still be part of the island of Great Britain.
Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over...
by MichaelCollins on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @03:19PM
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It doesn't seem very neutral to go around demanding others call you great.
Yes I know.. that's not how the word is meant in this context...
Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over...
by closewith on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:26AM
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Afterburner is a common term in both countries. Reheat is and always was a semi-official slang used in the UK and is a reference to the similarity in concept to reheat steam turbine.
Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over...
by gsnedders on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:23AM
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Note that Concorde "B" was meant to use a variant of the Olympus 593 without reheat, but ultimately lack of sales of the original aircraft doomed it.
Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over...
by phire on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:13AM
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It used afterburners for takeoff and accelerating through Mach 1.
Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over...
by mshook on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:45AM
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Well past Mach 1 actually, reheat was cut off at Mach 1.7.
Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over...
by ARandomerDude on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @12:14PM
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So afterburner then. 'Merica.